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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 4 (July 2, 1934.)

A Welter of Wind

A Welter of Wind.

When the brass band hits the air pockets with Barnum and Bailey's Best, Colonel Bogey, Barney Google, Hearts and Flowers, Beer and Onions, Men of Garlic, and Hearts of Okum, the soul must be dead indeed which is not stirred to a state where it craves to joust a joist or fling down a gauntlet or gimlet or a giblet to prove that men are men in spite of wives and sweethearts—and everything else to the contrary. Who has not felt, when the big drum bangs, that Rob Roy was right and Tarzan was top of his class? Who has not forgotten for the nonce that he is a J.P., a C.T., an M.C., a T.T., and the father of a large and disrespectful family—when the brasses enter his soul?

No wonder grandpa fought in the Crimea with his whiskers frozen to his chest, just because the throaty throb of the old “oompah” had caught him off his guard.

Stirring! Well, siree, if it's not it is time mankind was inoculated with a serum of leopard's spots and Chicago gin.